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Col. Gary Anderson argues that the United States has to stay the course in Iraq. He says that leaving now would "dishonor" the Iraqis. Every eligible man in Anderson's family is fighting in or about to be deployed in Iraq.

Of all the groups in the micro-melting pot of South Louisiana hit by Hurricane Katrina, it's hard to find a more close-knit community than the Islenos. The descendants of Spanish-speaking Canary Islanders who settled St. Bernard Parish more than 200 years ago are now struggling to restore a community that was dispersed by Katrina's winds and floods.

Pérez died on Friday at age 67. In a career that spanned over four decades, Pérez's meticulous pencil was behind some of the biggest comic book heroes.

Artists Jeanne-Claude and Christo, who last winter exhibited The Gates of Central Park, are now focused on their next installation, Over the River. In development off and on since 1992, the project will festoon the Arkansas River with swaths of fabric, a rural and much larger version of last year's New York feat.

Massachusetts lawmakers formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name three centuries after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 at the height of the Salem Witch Trials.

Joe Garcia had dropped off flowers at his wife's memorial on Thursday, The New York Times reported. He "pretty much just fell over" after returning home and died of a heart attack, his nephew said.

"Is this the moment to reform gun laws?" British reporter Mark Stone from Sky News asked the U.S. senator.

The FBI revealed Sunday that Rep. William Jefferson, under investigation for bribery, was videotaped accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded.

The United States will need a prison like that in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, until the war on terror is over, says Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Recent reports had suggested that the facility be closed.

Today marks 100 years since the birth of Louis Leakey, the patriarch of the first family of human fossils. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for National Geographic Radio Expeditions.